I remember the day that I bought Animals. It was during The Roach Days which is why it is here but to be honest, I was very tempted to hold off until we reach 2002 because on a dark night on an island in the Canadian Bounrdary Waters is where I first really appreciated this album.
For now, let’s roll back to 1987. A Momentary Lapse Of Reason was Pink Floyd’s latest album and the first to feature the new Pink Floyd that did not include Roger Waters. We’ll talk about that next. So with the supporting tour happening and Pink Floyd scheduled to play the Hoosier Dome, Rock 104 was doing its part by playing the Pink Floyd catalog. I was in my little yellow Comet one day and the song Pigs was on the radio. Normally, Animals doesn’t get a lot of airplay. It isn’t really known for being among Pink Floyd’s best stuff. So I hadn’t heard it before. Something about it spoke to me while I drove, it sounded pretty cool. It wasn’t Dark Side or Echoes but it had something unmistakibly Floyd about it so I redirected myself to Wooden Nickel and picked up Animals and A Momentary Lapse Of Reason.
You have already heard about my involvement with The Wall and I think I’ve made it know that Pink Floyd is one of my favorite bands of all time. We haven’t talked about the break-up. I couldn’t believe that Pink Floyd was over. I couldn’t believe that they could continue without Roger Waters. Afterall, he was the mastermind behind so much of their best material including The Wall.
So, I get Animals and listen to it a couple of times and for whatever reason, it gets shelved and almost forgotten completely. Yes, there were some completely Floydian aspects to it but there seemed to be some element that was missing. On the shelf it would sit for 15 years.
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